Usury helicopter

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Wucher Helicopter GmbH

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legal form GmbH
founding 1975
Seat Ludesch
management Thomas Türtscher
Number of employees 45
sales EUR 9.3 million (estimate)
Branch Helicopter flight service
Website www.wucher-helicopter.at

AS 350 B3 Écureuil from Wucher
Use of a Eurocopter AS 350 from Wucher for filming
Wucher Gallus 1 emergency doctor's helicopter in action

The usury Helicopter GmbH is an Austrian helicopter flight service. It is the last remaining part of the Wucher aviation company with its headquarters in Ludesch (Austria). The sole shareholder is Wucher & Huber GmbH.

activity

Wucher Helicopter makes helicopters available for various purposes. In addition to 6 rescue helicopters, Wucher Helicopter also operates a fleet of transport helicopters with a payload of up to 5,000 kg and a helicopter saw . Adventure flights and heli-skiing on the Arlberg and in Georgia are also offered. With 5 locations from Vorarlberg and the Lake Constance region to Salzburg, Wucher Helicopter not only covers western Austria, but also southern Germany, the Principality of Liechtenstein and part of Switzerland. In addition, the company is active internationally for disaster relief, fire fighting and fertilizer and spray flights.

In 2010, Wucher Helicopter bought the company Helimatic Sägesysteme GmbH, based in Cologne, Helimatic is the world-famous manufacturer of helicopter saws. Since the takeover, Helimatic GmbH as a company of the Wucher Helicopter Group has its headquarters in Lindau .

For many years, Wucher has also been operating the Gallus 1 emergency doctor's helicopter at the Zürs base, ICAO code LOJW (Vorarlberg). Usury provides pilots and helicopters, Vorarlberg mountain rescue provides the flight doctor and the air rescuer. The operations are coordinated by the rescue and fire brigade control center in Feldkirch.

Since the 2012/13 season, Wucher Helicopter has been operating heli-skiing in the 1,300 square kilometer Greater Caucasus ski area in Georgia . Pilot, mechanic, ski guides and helicopters, an Ecureuil B3 come from Austria. The helibase is around 2000 meters above sea level.

Headquarters

Heliport Ludesch, construction period phase 1: 2002–2003 and phase 2: 2010–2011. Investment volume: 2.5 million euros. Inauguration was in June 2011.

  • Constructed area: 1800 m²
  • Enclosed space. 20,000 m³
  • Warm hangar for maintenance: 600 m² or 5 helicopters
  • Cold hangar for hangar: 600 m² or 5 helicopters
  • Helicopter paint box
  • Workshop (300 m²)
  • Storage for spare parts and input material (300 m²)
  • Office and training space (1100 m²)
  • Employee lounge and changing rooms

Admission

The aviation company Wucher Helicopter GmbH has an Air Operator Certificate for its helicopter fleet in Austria, granted with an operating license AT.MG.A-304 (as of June 2013). Since 2011, Wucher has also been running a flight school for professional pilot training. The training machine is a Eurocopter AS 350 B3 "Ecureuil" The maintenance company of Wucher Helicopter GmbH, for its own and third-party helicopters, is certified according to the European Aviation Safety Agency standard AT.145.055.

See also

Web links

Commons : Usury Helicopter  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Türtscher new managing director at Wucher Helicopter , accessed on February 9, 2015
  2. ↑ a b Wucher Helicopter GmbH on FirmenABC.at
  3. ^ "Gallus 1" on alert Article in the Vorarlberger Nachrichten of 24./25. December 2009
  4. ↑ Wucher Helicopter is increasingly focusing on heli-skiing on orf.at
  5. ↑ The independent portal for business and news from Vorarlberg, Liechtenstein and Eastern Switzerland
  6. ↑ Entry in the list of Austro Control
  7. ^ Website Wucher Flugschule